ATS004: How to Be A Successful Investor with Arthur Lipper

I am extremely excited to have Arthur Lipper as my next guest! Anyone familiar with the finance industry knows the impact he has had. Since he started working on Wall Street in 1954 (60 years!), he is acknowledged worldwide as an innovator in the field of financial services. He pioneered breakthroughs in the fields of mutual fund analysis and stock index futures.

He was the first in history to create the stock index fund (John Bogle with Vanguard who made them them famous, was a client of Arthur’s!) He is also well known for being the founder of the Lipper Mutual Fund Performance Analysis Service (currently owned be Thomson Reuters). You may have heard of the Lipper Analysis when researching mutual funds.

In this podcast, we cover important topics such as:

What does it take to be a successful investor?

How should one get started?

What are key strategies to investing?

How do you know if you have a good mutual fund or not?

And much more!

He also talks about a new type of investment product that he patented, the Royalty Fund Model, and will be launching it soon. Visit this page to get more information as I will give updates.

He has also graciously offered to answer questions that any of you may have when it comes to investing. Email us at info@artofthinkingsmart.com or enter your comments and questions below!

Arthur’s resume is so impressive I had to publish it!

He was editor of Venture Magazine and also published numerous books, publications, and articles. You can check out some of his books here.

Since receiving a purple heart from his service in the Korean War with the Marines, he has been affiliated with the international financial community all of his adult life. Mr. Lipper formed two New York Stock Exchange member firms, Arthur Lipper Corporation and New York & Foreign Securities, and served both as Chairman. These firms specialized in serving institutional investors, and their services included the creation of mutual fund investment performance analysis. The firms were members of the major U.S. securities exchanges, and a number of commodity futures exchanges, and transacted hundreds of millions of dollars of business. Mr. Lipper also served on the Securities Industry Association Education Committee.

His Stock and Commodity Exchange memberships have included: NYSE, American, Midwest, Pacific Coast, Detroit, Boston, Philadelphia, Bangkok, NY Comex and NY Futures Exchange. He has served as advisor to: Mid-America Commodity Exchange and Bourse de Beyrouth. He was the founder and CEO of Arthur Lipper Corporation and co-founder and Chairman of New York & Foreign Securities Corporation. Mr. Lipper also serves as President of Communications Management Associates.

In 1969, Arthur Lipper Corporation filed the first prospectus for a Stock Index Fund and subsequently, through its subsidiary, Forward Contract Exchange Company in Amsterdam, the company conceived and initiated trading Stock Index Futures. The firm also created a stock loan department to serve its institutional clients, unique for its time. The company had offices in New York, London, Washington, Amsterdam, Geneva, Buenos Aires, Singapore and Tokyo, and was actively involved in Australia.

Arthur Lipper Corporation began investing in privately owned companies, including Venture Magazine, where Mr. Lipper served as Editor-in-Chief. He has lectured at many prominent universities, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Georgetown, and has written books on investing in privately owned companies, entrepreneurship and the management of early stage companies. His books include “Investing in Private Companies,” Thriving Up and Down the Free Market Food Chain,” “The Guide for Investing Angels,” and “The Larry and Barry Guide to Entrepreneurial Wisdom.”

Mr. Lipper’s personal experience as a business owner, and insights from the research of Venture, allowed him to develop a broad range of knowledge about entrepreneurs, and the problems of managing young companies.

Mr. Lipper serves, or has served, as an advisor or board member to many exchanges, public and private companies. He has served as advisor to Mid-America Commodity Exchange and Bourse de Beyrouth, and is President of Communications Management Associates. A number of important documents about Mr. Lipper and his career are at REXRoyalties.com He has a long-standing interest in furthering productive business relationships between America and Asia, especially China, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Zhou Enlai Peace Institute and the Yantai-San Diego Friendship Society.

British Far East Holdings is an investment banking and consulting firm directed by Arthur Lipper and his wife, Anni Lipper. The company developed a proprietary method of financing companies through royalties, which was awarded a U.S. Patent. Mr. Lipper also developed the methodology to implement a public Royalty Exchange, to manage and monetize Exchange Traded Royalties. This innovation was driven by Mr. Lipper’s concern that financing of many private companies might be better accomplished through a share of revenues, rather than through the traditional means of selling equity or incurring debt.

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